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Crypto Discussion Forum => Cryptocurrency discussions => Topic started by: TradeCoinD2 on September 19, 2023, 07:09:28 AM
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The crypto market is a highly volatile and rapidly changing industry, making it a challenging investment environment for investors. However, with appropriate applied strategies, you can manage risks and protect your investments. Risk is an unavoidable factor in investing, especially in the crypto market. A successful investor is one who can balance risk and reward.
I. Why Risk Management is Necessary?
Because in financial markets in general, and the crypto market specifically, everything is probabilistic, and nothing can be certain 100%. Unexpected factors can always arise, which is why good risk management helps minimize losses. While other factors like knowledge, time, experience, and understanding are crucial, not knowing how to manage risk can potentially wipe out all your earnings in an instant.
II. Risk Management Strategies
1.Portfolio Diversification
a. Adjust Portfolio According to Risk Levels
Divide your investment portfolio into high-risk, medium-risk, and low-risk categories. Then, allocate appropriate proportions based on your individual investment style. A portfolio heavily weighted towards high-risk investments can be imbalanced. Profit often comes with risk, so balancing your portfolio and managing risk involves diversifying your crypto assets according to your investment style.
b. Allocate Capital Wisely
Because there's always a risk in investing, you need to allocate your capital wisely. The future is unpredictable, and you can't be certain that any of your investments will win 100%. Even with thorough analysis, unexpected events can happen. Therefore, planning how to allocate capital among different cryptocurrencies will make you feel more comfortable, as you've spread the risk across a range of assets.
c. Regularly Monitor Investment Progress
We can't always predict market changes accurately, leading to losses and portfolio burnouts. Therefore, you should monitor your assets to eliminate risks from misjudging market trends. Using cryptocurrency portfolio management apps helps investors stay on top of their accounts and make appropriate adjustments. Be responsible for the money you invest!
Some portfolio management tools:
CoinTracking: Offers various portfolio tracking features, including real-time balance updates and profit/loss tracking.
CryptoCompare: Provides portfolio tracking functionality, allowing you to view your portfolio's real-time value and historical performance data.
2.Avoid Letting Emotions Affect Your Trades
Personal emotions are the number one enemy of traders in financial markets. When a decision is based on emotional factors, it's not truly honest or objective. Here are some tips for controlling emotions while trading:
a. Maintain a Long-Term Perspective: Crypto markets can be highly volatile in the short term, so it's important to have a long-term view and not get caught up in short-term fluctuations.
b. Don't Chase Profits: Avoid the temptation to chase profits by investing in a cryptocurrency or project just because it's surging in value. Instead, stick to your investment thesis and focus on fundamental principles.
c. Don't Panic: If the value of your investment, don't panic and sell off your portfolio. Instead, take a step back, review your investment thesis, and determine if the investment still holds value.
d. Avoid FOMO (Fear of Missing Out): FOMO is a common emotion in the crypto market. Don't feel compelled to invest in a cryptocurrency or project just because others are doing so.
e. Avoid Overreacting: Avoid overreacting to news or market conditions. Instead, take the time to research and understand the situation before making any investment decisions.
f. Take Breaks: If you find yourself emotionally invested in your trades, take breaks and come back with a clear, rational mindset.
Avoid Overtrading
It's essential not to trade excessively, as overtrading can lead to poor investment decisions and excessive trading costs, sometimes without covering profits. Frequent trading can also lead to incorrect investment decisions due to emotions like fear, greed, and overconfidence. It's challenging to time the market, and if you're constantly trading, you may miss long-term profits while bearing short-term losses. Trading too often can indicate impatience, a critical quality in the cryptocurrency market, where short-term volatility is common.
Note: There will be unexpected events in life and in the crypto market, so be flexible in adjusting your plans. Only sell or adjust your long-term coin portfolio for the following reasons:
*When you need the money for essential living expenses.
*When you want to rebalance your investment portfolio by adjusting asset allocations to optimize profit and minimize risk.
*When you need funds for reinvesting in your portfolio, such as selling some BTC to allocate it to a more promising coin.
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Aslong is beneficiary surely they will be some risk attach to it, at first the post is nice though but. At first before entering this crypto space always have the mindset that you will surely experience losses no matter the risk management and all that. So don't think that after reading this you already cancel losses nahh. You have only know the way you can manage and control it. But also take this post seriously especially for the newbies always read and understand the basics because every good knowledge is worth gathering.
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The number one means of managing risk while trading is to be able to afford making an investment that they could afford to loose, when we are conscious of this as the ultimate needed, then we will not be afraid of having anything that may come in our way as challenge while trading in cryptocurrency, most of us were just being caught in the midst of what we least expect to happen, but understanding the way to manage these risk will give us priority measures to stand out and remain unaffected.
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According to me , To manage risk in the crypto market, start by spreading your money across different cryptocurrencies. Do some research before investing, understand what you're getting into. Set realistic goals and limits to avoid unexpected losses. Keep an eye on the news and use stop-loss orders to protect your investments. Regularly review and adjust your strategy as needed. If we remain alert and use all such strategies, we can avoid huge risks in crypto.
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According to me , To manage risk in the crypto market, start by spreading your money across different cryptocurrencies. Do some research before investing, understand what you're getting into. Set realistic goals and limits to avoid unexpected losses. Keep an eye on the news and use stop-loss orders to protect your investments. Regularly review and adjust your strategy as needed. If we remain alert and use all such strategies, we can avoid huge risks in crypto.
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According to me , To manage risk in the crypto market, start by spreading your money across different cryptocurrencies. Do some research before investing, understand what you're getting into. Set realistic goals and limits to avoid unexpected losses. Keep an eye on the news and use stop-loss orders to protect your investments. Regularly review and adjust your strategy as needed. If we remain alert and use all such strategies, we can avoid huge risks in crypto.
That is called diversifying your investment. It is one of the most common investment tips for newbies which is also effective enough to minimize the risk when investing in cryptocurrency.
Knowing how to start investing or the basic knowledge of what would be the best cryptocurrency to invest in should also be considered by every new investor. This step is commonly being disregarded by newbies as they only follow the trend or sometimes being influenced by those people they know who invested in some certain cryptocurrency without having any knowledge or research to begin with.
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I. Why Risk Management is Necessary?
Because in financial markets in general, and the crypto market specifically, everything is probabilistic, and nothing can be certain 100%. Unexpected factors can always arise, which is why good risk management helps minimize losses. While other factors like knowledge, time, experience, and understanding are crucial, not knowing how to manage risk can potentially wipe out all your earnings in an instant.
Everything you've posted here is true we can't continue investing in Cryptocurrency without a detailed plan on risk management or we will end up losing a lot of money without finding a way to recover, diversify, understand the market when is the right time to buy and to dump are just a few of the strategies.
Gettign updated on what's happening in the market and the community is very important, we have seen some projects like Tera losing their value instantly because of the mismanagement of its developers if you are not fully aware of your investment you will be too late to sell or dump your share.
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What I have learned in trading is that the risk management means to how much money you can afford to lose in every trade, it probably because you always put a stop loss in a trade or else your margin or port will be at risk.
But if you use it in investing, the definition of risk management doesn't end there. I found out that diversification and avoiding overtrading is also part of risk management.
Risk management between trading and investing are different but have similarities.
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The points you convey are quite important because this is good management to avoid high losses.
Diversifying is important, I always remember the saying, don't put your eggs in one basket because it will make you more risky, so by diversifying from various levels of investment, low/high/stable risk must be adjusted because if there isn't one, you can't rely on it. one asset if at any time the price drops drastically.
So a good diversification in my opinion is, into bitcoin, real estate, stocks or gold.
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I find all your detailed points so interesting, and you are obviously right about risk management, especially in cryptocurrency trading and investment. The fact of chasing profit and chasing losses is what most people usually fall victim to and can end up losing their capital. Some people have the chance to make a profit from their investment if they hold it for a long time, but because they actually want to make a very quick profit, they can choose to go on the steady buy low and sell high route and might set a buy order which might execute at a very high price. We all know how volatile the crypto market can be.
Chasing loss is another thing that some people love to do after they have experienced a huge loss, they would want to do every possible thing just to gain back their lost fund.
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Risk management is very important in trading because of the volatile nature of cryptocurrency. It is good that you make your research, for you to know the right coins to invest in. Trading is something that needs special skills because of its complexity, and for that when you want to go into trading, you should know that you must run at loss, because even professional traders run at loss too. From my own side, I don8see diversifying into various coins because the risky will even be more higher compare to when you are dealing with one coin. However, this depends on the coin that you want to trade with. For example, we all know that bitcoin is king amongst other cryptocurrency. Therefore, whoever buys bitcoin, don't need to diversify into any other coin. This is because bitcoin price movement controls altcoins. I will say that the best way to trade is to use only the amount of money that you can afford to lose, so that if the market goes in opposite direction of your plans, you wouldn't regret it, because you will not become emotional.
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Knowing how to start investing or the basic knowledge of what would be the best cryptocurrency to invest in should also be considered by every new investor. This step is commonly being disregarded by newbies as they only follow the trend or sometimes being influenced by those people they know who invested in some certain cryptocurrency without having any knowledge or research to begin with.
Many beginners do not want to learn and look for information from the right people, but rather believe in information that develops in forums that should not just be accepted without properly analysing whether what is received is appropriate or not. Sometimes you are right that they believe more in developing trends or are influenced by those who do not have good basic analytical skills.But that's true; almost all beginners will experience that, and so did I at that time.
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Knowing how to start investing or the basic knowledge of what would be the best cryptocurrency to invest in should also be considered by every new investor. This step is commonly being disregarded by newbies as they only follow the trend or sometimes being influenced by those people they know who invested in some certain cryptocurrency without having any knowledge or research to begin with.
Many beginners do not want to learn and look for information from the right people, but rather believe in information that develops in forums that should not just be accepted without properly analysing whether what is received is appropriate or not. Sometimes you are right that they believe more in developing trends or are influenced by those who do not have good basic analytical skills.But that's true; almost all beginners will experience that, and so did I at that time.
When it comes on trusting up any information here on the market then it would really be accompanied with indepth analysis and verification before you would really be making out such move.
Managing risks in crypto market is a must and there's no one that you could trust online but only yourself alone and never ever make yourself do easily believe into those so called experts
or gurus that would be telling you this and that on which we know that there's no one into this market would really be able to tell on where prices could actually go.
This is why it would really be that best that you should really be just basing up with your own analysis with added with some other analysis as well.Its up to you
on how you would gonna handle yourself to this market.
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But if you use it in investing, the definition of risk management doesn't end there. I found out that diversification and avoiding overtrading is also part of risk management. Risk management between trading and investing are different but have similarities.
Risk management is very important principle and strategy in life in general as everyday we are all facing so many risks and not being aware of them and how to avoid them for good can be a big risk in itself. Now, there is more imperative if one is involved with in form of investment including cryptocurrency. When one is involved with crypto trading, one must learn to educate oneself as to the risks and how to effectively manage them so one can come out as a big winner and not be a loser in the whole thing. Even when one is not into trading, just getting into crypto necessitates that one must basic understanding of the many bad things that can happen to anyone in this industry - m talking about possible scamming, hacking, phishing and similar black eye spots within this industry. As always, diversification or not putting your all eggs in one basket can be a very good suggestion one has to follow and make sure that your coins are in your own non-custodial wallets for some more security not unless you are about to trade them. Overall, one has to have a lot of common sense in here and must be avoiding stupid moves that can evaporate one's assets in an instant.
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It is very important that we know the risk management here in the crypto market business to be honest, Because it gives protection to our financial holdings or capital. It helps to stay invested so that we can improve the assets we have.
It also helps us to further improve what we call diversification. And it also gives attraction to our investors when we use it correctly and correctly, honestly dude.
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Investing in cryptocurrencies is always a risk. Therefore, it is better to invest available funds, preserving your well-being and the well-being of your family. That is, as they say in trading: you need to invest as much as you don’t mind losing and this loss will not be critical for your budget.
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Exactly, In my opinion, the ability to manage risks well and wisely in cryptocurrency is very important. Because with this, we understand what we should do in certain portions. because basically crypto is always risky. So we must be able to manage these risks for the purposes explained by the OP.
but sometimes, many people know about this but don't implement it. because some of them think that crypto can make a lot of money as long as they dare to take risks. But basically, managing risks doesn't mean that we don't dare to take risks, but rather means that we don't get caught in various market and project traps, so that we can know the risks so that we can predict the risks. And this is very necessary. Thinking about doing things in crypto with more control and good risk-management would be much better and useful.
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Any invest who does not know how to manage risk then he would lost in many areas in the business so risk management is one of the important aspect in the cryptocurrency market. Before you even invest in the market you have to take the preventive measures to avoid any loss. And risk management is not only in cryptocurrency but any business one involved
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This is our money that will be at risk ,this is our time that will be spent and this is our future that might be ruined if managing our funds wrongly,so why not apply risk management ,?
All you have said is an example of how people must be taking all the precautions just to keep their money safer and earning specially in this kind of market that going up and down regularly,
Knowing your position will keep you and your money at least having more chance of earning than losing aside from the fact that we need to keep hold because of the bullrun .
But thanks to your posts here there will be more precautions that may apply in the coming days.
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The crypto market is a highly volatile and rapidly changing industry, making it a challenging investment environment for investors. However, with appropriate applied strategies, you can manage risks and protect your investments. Risk is an unavoidable factor in investing, especially in the crypto market. A successful investor is one who can balance risk and reward.
I. Why Risk Management is Necessary?
Because in financial markets in general, and the crypto market specifically, everything is probabilistic, and nothing can be certain 100%. Unexpected factors can always arise, which is why good risk management helps minimize losses. While other factors like knowledge, time, experience, and understanding are crucial, not knowing how to manage risk can potentially wipe out all your earnings in an instant.
II. Risk Management Strategies
1.Portfolio Diversification
a. Adjust Portfolio According to Risk Levels
Divide your investment portfolio into high-risk, medium-risk, and low-risk categories. Then, allocate appropriate proportions based on your individual investment style. A portfolio heavily weighted towards high-risk investments can be imbalanced. Profit often comes with risk, so balancing your portfolio and managing risk involves diversifying your crypto assets according to your investment style.
b. Allocate Capital Wisely
Because there's always a risk in investing, you need to allocate your capital wisely. The future is unpredictable, and you can't be certain that any of your investments will win 100%. Even with thorough analysis, unexpected events can happen. Therefore, planning how to allocate capital among different cryptocurrencies will make you feel more comfortable, as you've spread the risk across a range of assets.
c. Regularly Monitor Investment Progress
We can't always predict market changes accurately, leading to losses and portfolio burnouts. Therefore, you should monitor your assets to eliminate risks from misjudging market trends. Using cryptocurrency portfolio management apps helps investors stay on top of their accounts and make appropriate adjustments. Be responsible for the money you invest!
Some portfolio management tools:
CoinTracking: Offers various portfolio tracking features, including real-time balance updates and profit/loss tracking.
CryptoCompare: Provides portfolio tracking functionality, allowing you to view your portfolio's real-time value and historical performance data.
2.Avoid Letting Emotions Affect Your Trades
Personal emotions are the number one enemy of traders in financial markets. When a decision is based on emotional factors, it's not truly honest or objective. Here are some tips for controlling emotions while trading:
a. Maintain a Long-Term Perspective: Crypto markets can be highly volatile in the short term, so it's important to have a long-term view and not get caught up in short-term fluctuations.
b. Don't Chase Profits: Avoid the temptation to chase profits by investing in a cryptocurrency or project just because it's surging in value. Instead, stick to your investment thesis and focus on fundamental principles.
c. Don't Panic: If the value of your investment, don't panic and sell off your portfolio. Instead, take a step back, review your investment thesis, and determine if the investment still holds value.
d. Avoid FOMO (Fear of Missing Out): FOMO is a common emotion in the crypto market. Don't feel compelled to invest in a cryptocurrency or project just because others are doing so.
e. Avoid Overreacting: Avoid overreacting to news or market conditions. Instead, take the time to research and understand the situation before making any investment decisions.
f. Take Breaks: If you find yourself emotionally invested in your trades, take breaks and come back with a clear, rational mindset.
Avoid Overtrading
It's essential not to trade excessively, as overtrading can lead to poor investment decisions and excessive trading costs, sometimes without covering profits. Frequent trading can also lead to incorrect investment decisions due to emotions like fear, greed, and overconfidence. It's challenging to time the market, and if you're constantly trading, you may miss long-term profits while bearing short-term losses. Trading too often can indicate impatience, a critical quality in the cryptocurrency market, where short-term volatility is common.
Note: There will be unexpected events in life and in the crypto market, so be flexible in adjusting your plans. Only sell or adjust your long-term coin portfolio for the following reasons:
*When you need the money for essential living expenses.
*When you want to rebalance your investment portfolio by adjusting asset allocations to optimize profit and minimize risk.
*When you need funds for reinvesting in your portfolio, such as selling some BTC to allocate it to a more promising coin.
The number 2 That's an important point, emotions can often cloud our judgement when it comes to trading,that make us to take rash decisions and ignore the important ones. While trading, it's important to know the facts and data, Rather than your emotional thought.
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You also need to understand that buying cryptocurrency is a long-term investment. Those who know how to wait make good money, and do not try to constantly be in the market and speculate on small time frames. That's why mistakes, heightened emotions and losses appear.
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The crypto market is a highly volatile and rapidly changing industry, making it a challenging investment environment for investors. However, with appropriate applied strategies, you can manage risks and protect your investments. Risk is an unavoidable factor in investing, especially in the crypto market. A successful investor is one who can balance risk and reward.
I. Why Risk Management is Necessary?
Because in financial markets in general, and the crypto market specifically, everything is probabilistic, and nothing can be certain 100%. Unexpected factors can always arise, which is why good risk management helps minimize losses. While other factors like knowledge, time, experience, and understanding are crucial, not knowing how to manage risk can potentially wipe out all your earnings in an instant.
II. Risk Management Strategies
1.Portfolio Diversification
a. Adjust Portfolio According to Risk Levels
Divide your investment portfolio into high-risk, medium-risk, and low-risk categories. Then, allocate appropriate proportions based on your individual investment style. A portfolio heavily weighted towards high-risk investments can be imbalanced. Profit often comes with risk, so balancing your portfolio and managing risk involves diversifying your crypto assets according to your investment style.
b. Allocate Capital Wisely
Because there's always a risk in investing, you need to allocate your capital wisely. The future is unpredictable, and you can't be certain that any of your investments will win 100%. Even with thorough analysis, unexpected events can happen. Therefore, planning how to allocate capital among different cryptocurrencies will make you feel more comfortable, as you've spread the risk across a range of assets.
c. Regularly Monitor Investment Progress
We can't always predict market changes accurately, leading to losses and portfolio burnouts. Therefore, you should monitor your assets to eliminate risks from misjudging market trends. Using cryptocurrency portfolio management apps helps investors stay on top of their accounts and make appropriate adjustments. Be responsible for the money you invest!
Some portfolio management tools:
CoinTracking: Offers various portfolio tracking features, including real-time balance updates and profit/loss tracking.
CryptoCompare: Provides portfolio tracking functionality, allowing you to view your portfolio's real-time value and historical performance data.
2.Avoid Letting Emotions Affect Your Trades
Personal emotions are the number one enemy of traders in financial markets. When a decision is based on emotional factors, it's not truly honest or objective. Here are some tips for controlling emotions while trading:
a. Maintain a Long-Term Perspective: Crypto markets can be highly volatile in the short term, so it's important to have a long-term view and not get caught up in short-term fluctuations.
b. Don't Chase Profits: Avoid the temptation to chase profits by investing in a cryptocurrency or project just because it's surging in value. Instead, stick to your investment thesis and focus on fundamental principles.
c. Don't Panic: If the value of your investment, don't panic and sell off your portfolio. Instead, take a step back, review your investment thesis, and determine if the investment still holds value.
d. Avoid FOMO (Fear of Missing Out): FOMO is a common emotion in the crypto market. Don't feel compelled to invest in a cryptocurrency or project just because others are doing so.
e. Avoid Overreacting: Avoid overreacting to news or market conditions. Instead, take the time to research and understand the situation before making any investment decisions.
f. Take Breaks: If you find yourself emotionally invested in your trades, take breaks and come back with a clear, rational mindset.
Avoid Overtrading
It's essential not to trade excessively, as overtrading can lead to poor investment decisions and excessive trading costs, sometimes without covering profits. Frequent trading can also lead to incorrect investment decisions due to emotions like fear, greed, and overconfidence. It's challenging to time the market, and if you're constantly trading, you may miss long-term profits while bearing short-term losses. Trading too often can indicate impatience, a critical quality in the cryptocurrency market, where short-term volatility is common.
Note: There will be unexpected events in life and in the crypto market, so be flexible in adjusting your plans. Only sell or adjust your long-term coin portfolio for the following reasons:
*When you need the money for essential living expenses.
*When you want to rebalance your investment portfolio by adjusting asset allocations to optimize profit and minimize risk.
*When you need funds for reinvesting in your portfolio, such as selling some BTC to allocate it to a more promising coin.
There are many risk and factors to come in place. Managing risk in crypto market is not easy ,there are ways if one coin goes down in value, you will not lose all your money. The main thing is that you can do is to diversify your portfolio by investing in different crypto currencies. You should also remember to set a stop-loss order limit to your losses and take profit when market is good.
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You also need to understand that buying cryptocurrency is a long-term investment. Those who know how to wait make good money, and do not try to constantly be in the market and speculate on small time frames. That's why mistakes, heightened emotions and losses appear.
You will not know it though if you haven't that experience. So for me, you have to go on certain phases here before you understand how the market works and take it in our favorite. You can't just go and invest from the beginner and says I want to be a long term. It's possible if you have a mentor or something that you will guide you.
But at least in my case, when I joined, I don't know what bull run is, and so I just sell whenever I make profits. And then looking back if I just hold on my precious Bitcoins, I could have make a huge profit just in 2017 alone. And with that in the next cycle I have a clear path on what to do and that is to become a Bitcoin holder.
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You will not know it though if you haven't that experience. So for me, you have to go on certain phases here before you understand how the market works and take it in our favorite. You can't just go and invest from the beginner and says I want to be a long term. It's possible if you have a mentor or something that you will guide you.
But at least in my case, when I joined, I don't know what bull run is, and so I just sell whenever I make profits. And then looking back if I just hold on my precious Bitcoins, I could have make a huge profit just in 2017 alone. And with that in the next cycle I have a clear path on what to do and that is to become a Bitcoin holder.
Partial sales can be used. That is, when your analysis shows that the price can and does reverse, you can sell part of the coins, and the remaining part, after further growth, will bring greater profit. Although here you still need to look at when and at what price you bought bitcoins. And if it was a long time ago and at a very low price, then there will be less fear and anxiety to continue to keep this coin in purchases. But the big fear is often when a person bought a cryptocurrency at the maximum of its growth and it immediately begins to fall in price, then only one thought appears: how to sell it without losses, without thinking about profit.
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I can easily handle the risk of losing my entire fund. Bearing in mind the many hacker attacks and attempts by fraudsters, I make it easier for myself to choose for payments and payouts. Trading is almost reduced to a minimum of risk, as well as the transfer of money from one CEX exchange to another, as well as crypto currencies. You should try it, because such increases can hardly be repeated any time soon.